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Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | My Favorite Place To Work...

Barbara Cochran, MFA — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:30:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Barbara Cochran, MFA
Post title: My Favorite Place To Work...

...when I decide to work someplace other than home (which is quite often), where I have a very comfortable, high-quality soft leather Lazy Boy, which I sit on when I am doing a translation on my laptop, and a study, with an imitation antique desk with an old reading lamp on it, such as at certain restaurants and coffee houses, and more often, Ritter Public Library, in the beautiful resort town of Vermilion, Ohio, on Lake Erie. This library has a very large stone gas log fireplace, which I work in front of sitting in a comfortable armchair with an ottoman, on top of which I can stretch out my legs as I work on my laptop or read. The fireplace throws off a lot of heat on cold winter days in Ohio. Also, I like to gaze into its flames from time to time to take a relaxing break from my work, although I'm afraid I can only indulge in that for a moment! Also, I consider the librarians who work in the Adult Services Department room, where I work, to be special friends of mine because, for one thing, they have done a great deal to promote my career as a translator. I'm always in a really good mood when I'm around them, and talking to them about, not just translating, but their lives, too. During the summer, I like to work at Oberlin College's library, which, at that time, is nice and cool and so still you could easily hear a pin drop, especially since almost all of the students are away until the Fall.

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Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | Reasonably

Tina Vonhof (X) — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:16:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Tina Vonhof (X)
Post title: Reasonably

Like most people I would like more desk space. I used to have a desk that curved out on the left, so I had space for extra papers or dictionaries but that didn't fit in my current apartment. The smaller desk I now have is adequate and I have a small filing cabinet beside it that holds my printer/scanner but my two monitors fill up about 2/3 of the space. I looked for a more ergonomic chair but discovered that these are not built for 5'2" women, so I have made my old chair more comfortable with a sheepskin and an extra wad of foam behind my lower back. I'm quite happy with it now.

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | Somewhat

Mario Freitas — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:10:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Mario Freitas
Post title: Somewhat

It's comfortable, with good lighting and ventilation, large and well-equipped.
I still need to troubleshoot a few issues: I must move to an area with less noise and I need an air-conditioner. I will hopefully settle this in 2018.

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | good for now, but it can be better...

Joohee Kim — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:47:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Joohee Kim
Post title: good for now, but it can be better...

now I need more space for my printer and scanner...

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | Healthy for me

Christine Andersen — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:59:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: Healthy for me

I have a good chair, no back problems, and no health problems. I can provoke a migraine attack by sitting here too long and not taking enough breaks, but you can do that sort of thing in 100% ideal environments too.

It may be slightly too dusty for some, and the fire authorities might not approve - I have a neat little stand for my coffee cup with a tea-light in it, probably too close to heaps of paper ... but I don't use it much, and in 15 years I have only spilt one cup of coffee!! The spill risk is actually greater than the fire risk IMHO.

My work environment is the way I like it, and there is no one else to be annoyed by my regular airing out or whatever... and that overrides all the official theories.

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | somewhat

Gianluca Marras — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:42:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Gianluca Marras
Post title: somewhat

it could be better...
more desk space, a different location for the printer...
healthy? well I live in the second most polluted city in Italy...

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | Right now: only somewhat

Muriel Vasconcellos (X) — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:34:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Post title: Right now: only somewhat

My layout and equipment are good and the chair is very comfortable. For a while my space looked really cool with a lot of empty surfaces, but over the holidays it has gotten too crowded with stuff, which affects my mood and outlook. I've been trying to translate, write and respond to Christmas messages, make year-end charity donations, answer e-mails, follow our interesting political scene in the U.S., and wrap packages for mailing, all in the same space. Also, I buy more books than I have time to read. Hopefully, my space will get back to a semblance of what it was in January.

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable? | Yes, I think so!

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Yes, I think so!

My work space isn't the most open and I would like having a little more desk space, but it’s quite comfortable and I suppose it’s also safe and healthy (plenty of natural light, almost no noise, good view to the small communal garden, everything I need is at reach…).

Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?

ProZ.com Staff — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:10:02 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Is your work environment healthy and comfortable?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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